Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Adriaen van der Donck

Adriaen van der Donck

Self-nomination. Biography of a very interesting character from an underrepresented part of America's colonial history. I think I've addressed all the suggestions from its peer review. — Laura Scudder ☎ 17:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. I will support the article if a few small fixes are made.
  • "Some historians have argued that had it been written in English, the Description would have become a classic of American colonial literature." This claim should be H-noted.
  • ""her father was remembered as a national hero for helping free Breda from Spanish forces during the course of the Eighty Years' War." If he was regarded as a national hero at the time, van der Donck's grandfather should be named (and wikilinked, even if it's just a redlink) here.
  • ""he attracted the ire of Van Rensselaer with his independent ideas on how to enforce laws" Which of van der Donck's ideas in particular were contentious?

Andrew Levine 00:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• The full quote for that is given further down. I should really just have another go at integrating the quote into the lead.
  • I've simply moved the quote up into the intro, but am unsure whether to use Hnotes or the inline external link in this situation. Optimally I'll be able to find the original source of the quote if it's in print. — Laura Scudder ☎ 22:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
• Done. I'll eventually translate the rather short nl:Adriaen van Bergen to bluelink it.
• I'll dive back into my sources tonight to find specifics. — Laura Scudder ☎ 16:05, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I've added specifics including quotes from Van Rensselaer's letters. — Laura Scudder ☎ 22:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

• Support. All of my objections have been fixed. Andrew Levine 15:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Really great article, fits the FA criteria. — Wackymacs 08:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Indeed a great article that fits FA criteria. Maartenvdbent 10:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Minor oppose - would prefer to see a ref/note system used, or an explanation of what kind referenceing system is being used added. It's the first time I've come across this system and it is not intuitive - innote articles normally have the - specific notes are in text detail in the reference secton. Please remove the html link from the lead into an external links section.--nixie 04:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - If you haven't known already, check out Wikipedia:Footnotes for more information on ref/note system. :) - Mailer Diablo 04:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• After some comments from others I switched from the ref/note system to the Hnote system because I reference Shorto's work many times and preferred to not deal with the severe numbering hassle that tends to cause. I rather think the result is much neater, but I'm willing to switch it back if preferred. — Laura Scudder ☎ 06:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Well, as much as I dislike systems that require manual renumbering for repeat references, I switched the article back to ref/note. — Laura Scudder ☎ 16:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Suppport. Well-written article that should be FA. Gflores ^Talk 18:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)